Choi, E. Kwan; Choi, Jai-Young - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2013
This paper investigates outsourcing and foreign direct investment (FDI) decisions in North–South trade under … wages. If the expected outsourcing cost is lower than the in-house production cost, some outsourcing to a Southern firm is … optimal. However, outsourcing to an FDI firm is superior to outsourcing to a Southern firm as well as in-house production …